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Total phenolic contents and antioxidant activity of corn tassel extracts

Mohsen, Sobhy M., Ammar, Abdalla S.M.·2009·Food Chemistry

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Ground corn tassels, a by-product of corn, were used as a source of phenolic compounds. Water, ethanol, methanol, acetone, hexane, chloroform, butanol, petroleum ether and methylene chloride were evaluated as different polarity solvents to extract these phenolic compounds. Ethanol exhibited the highest extraction ability for such phenolic compounds, followed by methanol and water, where the total phenols were 0.1575%, 0.1125% and 0.0737%, respectively. Antioxidant activity of corn tassels ranged from 83.0% to 85.2%, 69.9% to 83.7%, 69.8% to 80.4%, 22.2% to 49.1% and 14.8% to 19.3% radical scavenging activity (% RSA) for ethanol, methanol, acetone, butanol and water extracts, respectively. The ethanolic extract of the corn tassels was successfully utilised to retard the oxidation of sunflower oil and the obtained induction period values were comparable to those of tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ).

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Authors
Mohsen, S. M., & Ammar, A. S. M.
Affiliations
Cairo University (EG)
Corresponding author
Ammar, Abdalla S.M.
Venue
Food Chemistry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-02
Volume
112
Issue
3
Pages
595-598
ISSN
0308-8146 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1976267953
Cited by
286
References
24
Citations by year
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FWCI
6.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Food Chemistry (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Biochemistry › Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Organic Chemistry › Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Agricultural and Biological Research
Keywords
total phenolic content, antioxidant activity, phenolic compounds, solvent extraction, ethanol extraction, free radical scavenging, sunflower oil oxidation, induction period, tert-butylhydroquinone, corn by-products

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